Deaf boy hears for first time: Breakthrough gene therapy on 11-year-old boy
Genetics account for more than half of all babies who are born deaf. Now, a medical breakthrough in gene therapy may give some a chance to hear. Researchers in the US and China have succeeded in restoring hearing to a small number of children who’ve undergone an experimental procedure.
Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro reports.
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